So a big reason the Boundary Waters is so popular is that it is the location of Northern Tier, the oldest Scouting "High Adventure" base, which hosts something like 4,000 scouts per year on the US side for wilderness canoe trips. The senate still has to vote on this, and /

This is my hometown paper, and Lehigh Co. is ~half of PA-07, one of the swingiest congressional districts in the country. So that should tell you how people are feeling about all this here.

My kingdom for a MacOS compatible version of tpsDig

shoutout to pretzels

My latest for @science.org. - Illegal miners have forced Peru’s oldest environmental research station to suspend work. Gold mining has so far led to the deforestation of 140,000 ha of Amazonian rainforest in Peru - about half the size of Yosemite National Park www.science.org/content/arti...

Sticklebacks have taught us how evolution works in real time. The Canadian Journal of Zoology invites papers for a collection marking three decades of stickleback research. Deadline: March 30, 2026 🐟▶️ https://ow.ly/yZKV50XraXA #Stickleback #Evolution #Zoology

We are 1 mid-sized state away from a salmonid-as-state fish electoral majority. Get on board Ohio, embrace the lake trout!

Does anyone know of a paper like this summarizing global ideas about evolution through history? One would think there would be some good records like this in east Asia as well

Hey @housedemocrats.bsky.social, could you guys at least pretend you have principles for once? Absolutely pathetic.

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

Our new commentary on @blackrim.bsky.social et al's fascinating work in @newphyt.bsky.social, using simulation and analysis of empirical data to scale microevolutionary process to macroevolutionary patterns. Punchline: death rate and max age are driving. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Only 7 more days to apply for an NMNH Research Undergrad internship/experience! naturalhistory.si.edu/research/nat...

New course to be taught this summer at Bamfield Marine Science Center by Andrew Hendry and collaborators (e.g., me), on rapid evolution in the anthropocene: bamfieldmsc.com/education/pr... with a focus on both marine & freshwater stickleback, intertidal organisms, & more

It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!

Immediate impeachment. We either have a constitution or we do not.

This is a really nice study just published a few weeks ago, with some pretty bleak results on the effects of climate change at the population level. Focuses on a lake trout population in Ontario from a small lake with increasing duration of summer stratification.🌎🐟 dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0393

Remember the instructor, Mel Curth, who was fired from the University of Oklahoma due to giving a 0 for an essay that didn't have citations & wasn't on topic? She is going to the president of the University to fight for her job back on Friday, Jan. 2. Sign this petition to support her: unfiremel.com

Discovered this journal a week late

Incredible story about a fish and the forces of time. www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

Send us your stickleback papers! 💧🌎🐟

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

Scientists: I’m looking for sources who think that some (or all?) of the changes to scientific funding, agency research agendas, or STEM training over the last year had merit or were needed reforms. If this is you, I’d like to interview you.

Blending all the world’s ideas into a slurry, then asking the slurry how to make an idea

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

honored to welcome A. Frog back to the pages of Defector for what might have been his final blog defector.com/is-this-the-...

Vote proportions are bounded by 0 and 1, you can’t expect the national environment to benefit candidates equally across districts if different partisan leans. Behn got 45% compared to Barry’s 38% in ‘24. But to get to 45 from 38, you need an 18% improvement, not a 7% improvement.

Today, I had a doctor appointment here in Iceland. I walked in, punched my ID number into a kiosk, paid the equivalent of like $4, and waited until the doctor called me in. Then when the appointment was over I simply walked out the door.

I think something that academics in the natural sciences don’t really appreciate is that there are a lot of people in the less empirical social sciences who got into research because they realized the output of the disciplines is socially constructed,

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Probably every local AAUP chapter should do a study and a summary like this for their own institution.

A large portion of this interview is based on the pretense that Erika Christakis's opposition to Yale telling students not to wear racist costumes was somehow an exercise in academic truth-seeking. Really gives away @thefireorg.bsky.social 's lack of understanding of how universities function.

Hello sci-sky. Does anyone have access to a PDF of: A. J. Nicholson, "The Self-Adjustment of Populations to Change" Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 1957. 22: 153-173 doi.org/10.1101/SQB.1957.022.01.017 ? I would greatly appreciate a copy if so 🧪🌎💧

🌟 New Research - "Our study reveals that brook charr adopt distinct “warm” and “cool” behavioural tactics to balance foraging and thermal stress in stratified lakes" 📖 Read the full paper here➡️ buff.ly/I9VeUeP

I have seen people I respect like or repost this take, but I want you to actually think about it for one second. Is this actually a serious criticism and what are the implications? Are they talking just about *their specific disability*? What does e.g., a universally usable book even look like?

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Hello sci-sky. Does anyone have access to a PDF of: A. J. Nicholson, "The Self-Adjustment of Populations to Change" Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 1957. 22: 153-173 doi.org/10.1101/SQB.1957.022.01.017 ? I would greatly appreciate a copy if so 🧪🌎💧

The best secular Christmas song is Linus & Lucy and it is *not* close

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

Unfortunately relevant listening: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Guys on the job board rallying to defend faculty salaries of 55-60k in the northeast gotta be school admin, right?

There is no sense in which RFK Jr. is “In Science”. The extent to which The Atlantic has self-immolated over the past decade is absolutely baffling

American Rivers is announcing its disapproval of the EPA’s new proposed definition of the WOTUS provision of the Clean Water Act. The rule would dramatically reduce the reasonable science-based protections used to protect our nation's waterways. Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...

Meromictic lakes are terrifying

Hey @governor.pa.gov, this sucks

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

It seems self-evidently dumb to follow the strategic instincts of a guy who just voted for the Trump-endorsed candidate to be his own mayor.